About number and composition population of KHERSON REGION by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001

The language structure of the population Kherson region , according to the All-Ukrainian population census data, is characterized by the following data:

The part of those whose mother tongue was( %)

the language of their nationality

Ukrainian

Russian

other language

Ukrainians

87.0

х

13.0

0.0

Russians

91.6

8.4

х

0.0

Belarussians

24.7

25.7

49.5

0.1

Tatars

71.2

3.7

24.7

0.4

Armenians

66.0

8.5

24.8

0.7

Moldavans

42.0

33.5

24.3

0.2

Turkish

97.2

0.7

1.6

0.5

Crimean Tatars

38.4

0.5

11.5

49.6

Gypsies

51.9

36.4

11.4

0.3

Jews

2.8

13.8

83.1

0.2

Poles

4.4

66

28.7

0.9

Germans

7.4

21.5

71.0

0.1

Azerbaijanians

48.6

8.9

28.4

14.1

Korean

17.2

9.8

72.3

0.7

Bulgarians

21.4

22.2

55.9

0.5

other nationality

33.2

19.0

43.4

4.4

The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 73.2% of the population of region, this is by 5.5 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 24.9% of the population. Comparatively with the previous census data this index has decreased by 5.5 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census remained at a previous level 1.8%